What Are You Doing Right Now
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1409559-accidentally-re-initialized-raid10-array-for-about-10-seconds?source=homepage-feed
Tobak Slovakian
VP IT/CIO at CompanySomewhere, Somestate, United States34 years IT experienceA+, MCSE, Network+, Security+There was another post from a guy a while ago asking for router recommendations. A lot of people recommended and EdgeRouter and a Ubiquiti AP. He made another post saying he couldn't get the SSID to work (something stupid like that) and then finally ended up saying he was sending it back and getting something else.
I looked at his profile, 25 years in IT.......
These people must be counting from when they first heard the word "computer"
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ROFL. I feel bad for those of us that really have been in some "IT" field since we heard the word computer. I was programming them before I could spell computer, lol (started when I was 5...)... I actually started making a few bucks working on people's computers when I was aorund 10... So I've been in IT for 26 years (I'm 36 now).
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@dafyre said:
ROFL. I feel bad for those of us that really have been in some "IT" field since we heard the word computer. I was programming them before I could spell computer, lol (started when I was 5...)... I actually started making a few bucks working on people's computers when I was aorund 10... So I've been in IT for 26 years (I'm 36 now).
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
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@dafyre said:
ROFL. I feel bad for those of us that really have been in some "IT" field since we heard the word computer. I was programming them before I could spell computer, lol (started when I was 5...)... I actually started making a few bucks working on people's computers when I was aorund 10... So I've been in IT for 26 years (I'm 36 now).
My 4th grade science fair project was on how a computer worked. I had the case open with spare parts as a diagram. I've had one since I was 3 or 4.
Around the same time as you I was working on them with my dad (he had a small shop). I'm only 29 so that's only 19 for me ha.
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@MattSpeller said:
Just browsed SW to help some people out. There's a CEO/CIO asking if he can fix his RAID10 array after blowing it away rather than restoring from a backup.
wtf?!
And the plot thickens... he's finally decided to go the route of restore from backups, but he's not sure how to do it.
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@travisdh1 said:
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
I touched my first in 1979.
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Watching a Crashplan initial backup run... remaining time keeps going back and forth - 6 days.... 23 hours.... 5.3 days... 18 hours.... make up your mind already!
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I think they hired the Microsoft guy who wrote the calculations on how long it will take the file to copy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
I touched my first in 1979.
So, you started in IT the year before I was born!
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
I touched my first in 1979.
So, you started in IT the year before I was born!
By the "when I first saw a computer standard", yes.
I ACTUALLY started in 1989 when I got an internship with Eastman Kodak to make a NoSQL database system and graphical front end. Basically a NoSQL variant of Access years before Access was thought up.
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The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1407603-a-reason-not-to-use-cloud-services?source=start&pos=3
Top three things a company should never outsource:
Mission-critical systems
Proprietary processes, handling of confidential or intellectual property information
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@johnhooks said:
The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
Clearly the points guide meant to show you how to post was lost on you.
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I pretty much stopped going once I was a spicy pepper...
but that also coincided with when ML opened up
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Clearly having reached spicy you were burned out and ready for something new.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Clearly having reached spicy you were burned out and ready for something new.
I'm not sure I completely agree with that...
I followed the people that I liked in the community. You being one of them.I choose to only spend time on one for any real amount of time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
Clearly the points guide meant to show you how to post was lost on you.
Ha I guess I did misunderstand the point. I figured it was better not to post anything than to just repeat things. That always bothered me on forums, 100 people posting the exact same thing because they didn't read any responses.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
Clearly the points guide meant to show you how to post was lost on you.
Ha I guess I did misunderstand the point. I figured it was better not to post anything than to just repeat things. That always bothered me on forums, 100 people posting the exact same thing because they didn't read any responses.
It's extremely time consuming to read all of the responses - sadly you often need to in order to see if there has been any updates from the OP, or movement from the stated desire, etc. but I have been known to throw an answer at a question without reading the entire thread from time to time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
I touched my first in 1979.
So, you started in IT the year before I was born!
By the "when I first saw a computer standard", yes.
I ACTUALLY started in 1989 when I got an internship with Eastman Kodak to make a NoSQL database system and graphical front end. Basically a NoSQL variant of Access years before Access was thought up.
I'm sure it worked better than Access too.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
Clearly the points guide meant to show you how to post was lost on you.
Ha I guess I did misunderstand the point. I figured it was better not to post anything than to just repeat things. That always bothered me on forums, 100 people posting the exact same thing because they didn't read any responses.
It's extremely time consuming to read all of the responses - sadly you often need to in order to see if there has been any updates from the OP, or movement from the stated desire, etc. but I have been known to throw an answer at a question without reading the entire thread from time to time.
Exactly. I would read through to see if the OP posted a response, or if they changed their mind, or if it was discovered they didn't actually need what they said they needed. I always wondered how people had such high points because it was so time consuming.
I've started reading less. From what I've seen anyway, I don't even thing the OP reads through them all.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
The green posters are full of advice today. (Full disclosure I'm only a Poblano, but I'm never on there and I apparently was using the site wrong. I actually read through all of the answers to see if I could offer anything new and didn't post if I couldn't.)
Clearly the points guide meant to show you how to post was lost on you.
Ha I guess I did misunderstand the point. I figured it was better not to post anything than to just repeat things. That always bothered me on forums, 100 people posting the exact same thing because they didn't read any responses.
It's extremely time consuming to read all of the responses - sadly you often need to in order to see if there has been any updates from the OP, or movement from the stated desire, etc. but I have been known to throw an answer at a question without reading the entire thread from time to time.
I tend to, but I also respond to them, which is drastically MORE time consuming and gets you even fewer points.
